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• The Failed Fraternity Factor: A wake-up call | S G Vombatkere

  13 August 2022, by S G Vombatkere

  On 13 Dec 1946, Jawaharlal Nehru moved an “Objective Resolution” during the Constituent Assembly, which outlined the objectives of the Constitution. These were discussed and later became the constitutional Preamble, assuring to the People, the democratic core values of Justice, Liberty and Equality. Fraternity as a core value, was added by B.R.Ambedkar on 21 February 1948.
  B.R.Ambedkar urged that the Constitution should strive towards the creation of unity among citizens by improving (…)

• Promises of the Past, Predicaments of the Present and Hope for the Future | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  13 August 2022

  by Bhabani Shankar Nayak
  Indians are going to unfurl the tricolour to celebrate the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence on 15th of August 2022. Indian freedom struggle has not only shaped India as a modern constitutional democracy but also shaped the nature of state, society and citizenship. The anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, anti-feudal and anti-imperialist struggle were the four pillars of the Indian freedom struggle that laid the foundation of a sovereign nation-state promised to (…)

• Collapse of the BJP coalition Govt in Bihar and its replacement by a Mahagathbandhan alliance Govt will energise secular forces in the country | Arun Srivastava

  13 August 2022

  by Arun Srivastava
  Nitish Kumar has been ridiculed and described as an unreliable partner for his turning sides during his nearly two-decade stay in the office of the chief minister, but he at the same time deserves appreciation for shaking the level of confidence of Narendra Modi and snatching the Chanakya crown from Amit Shah by foiling their design to dislodge from the power and committing to unite the fractious opposition to take on the creator of New India.
  During the last year, the (…)

• What’s behind the sweeping powers to the ED by the apex court? | Faraz Ahmad

  13 August 2022, by Faraz Ahmad

  Jo baat kehte darte hain sab, too wo baat likh
  Itni andheri thhee na kabhi pehle raat, likh —Javed Akhtar
  (Write what everyone is scared of saying; write that the night was never so dark as now)
  Once again the courts in India have exposed themselves to the charge of aiding the executive’s partisan role in targeting political and other opponents of this government, suppressing dissidence through patently unfair, arbitrary means, misusing various investigative agencies of the Central (…)

• Report on Panel Discussion on the Unemployed in Today’s India | Naushad Ali

  13 August 2022

  by Naushad Ali
  Sunil Memorial Trust organized an Online Panel Discussion on “Being Unemployed in Today’s India” on the 9th of July 2022.
  The speakers at the panel discussion were Dr Amit Basole, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University. Manindra Thakur, Professor, Center for Political Science, JNU and Mr. Anupam, National President, Yuva Halla Bol.
  Initiating the panel discussion, Professor PK Basant first introduced Sunil (…)

• Bulldozing the People, their Intellectual and Immovable Properties | Bhavya

  13 August 2022

  by Bhavya *
  Abstract:
  In the contemporary era, bulldozers have been used to remove political opponents and minority groups of society. It is because of the dominance of majoritarian groups over weaker sections of society. Absolute power of the State is the result of violations of basic fundamental rights. All the acts of the state should be reasonable and must not violate the principles of democracy. The values of liberty, equality, justice, fraternity, etc. should be exercised in a way (…)

• Anniversary of Quit India Movement: A Great Upsurge of People Which Warned Colonial Powers that Their Rule Must End | Bharat Dogra

  13 August 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  It was on August 8 1942, 80 years ago, that Mahatma Gandhi gave his great call to the people of India to ‘do or die’ for independence and thereby served notice to the colonial rulers. Even though all the leading Congress rulers were arrested almost immediately, several hundred thousand people responded almost immediately and the very next day witnessed some of the most courageous and spontaneous clashes of people with police, despite the clear instructions from Churchill and his henchmen to (…)

• Muslims Played A Very Significant Role During The Independence Movement! | Humra Quraishi

  13 August 2022, by Humra Quraishi

  Navaid Hamid, President of the AIMMM, (All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat) a federation of various Muslim organisations, is one of the first to have raised “concern” as he puts across, after the newly-elected President of India, Droupadi Murmu, did not mention names any of the Muslim freedom fighters in her first address to the nation after being sworn in as a President of India.
  To quote Navaid Hamid on this: “It’s nothing but unfortunate that the President Murmu’s address (…)

• When Swiss neutrality hurt the Indian freedom struggle | Anand Chandrasekhar

  13 August 2022

  by Anand Chandrasekhar
  The Café de la Couronne along with Hotel Bristol in Geneva were favoured hangouts for anti-colonial activists and foreign agents by courtesy
  A forgotten episode in India’s struggle for Independence is revisited by new books that underline Switzerland’s role as a strategic location for revolutionaries, anarchists and foreign agents.
  “He is the most dangerous conspirator in or out of India. He’s done more harm than all the rest put together. You know that there is (…)

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  August 15, 1947 - Frontpage of Hindustan Times

  13 August 2022